Monthly Archives: June 2011

Here are a collection of small-bite thoughts to lead into the big July 4 BBQ weekend: We’re At War! Apparently, I get the news late. As my colleague Katie Peterson pointed out this week on Pass The Mic, PR people are at war with journalists, and we are all slimes. The common battle cries of […]

I have always thought of myself to be a likable individual. It probably has something to do with the way I was raised into thinking that I was made of sugar, spice and everything nice. Never once have I thought of myself as slimy or sneaky, so you’d have to assume that I was quite […]

Having represented more than a dozen IT security firms of all sizes over the years, I can tell you this. I have never seen an industry more bent on flooding the market with research surveys. For a time it seemed like they would be released one per week from vendors big and small. The interesting […]

In a recent blog post about gamification, I mentioned the “social stock market” Empire Avenue which allows you to trade virtual currency. I’d like to revisit the concept of social currency, as I think it has the potential to become much more than just an online game. So, what is social currency? I would consider […]

I have a friend, we’ll call her Jill, who just lives to give her opinion online. She is a chronic Yelp community participant, and always has Facebook posts about this product or that product. At first I thought this was a cute fad she was going through when social media was coming into its prime. […]

Goodbye United States Post Office. See you later email! There’s a new sheriff in town when it comes to content sharing. You’ve got nothing on Facebook when it comes to content sharing. A recent study by ShareThis entitled “Sharing, More Than Just Friends, Fans and Followers” has found that more than half of all the […]

I am constantly amazed at how we sit at the center of innovation. As practitioners in Silicon Valley, we’re almost spoiled. We live at the epicenter of technology. We see innovation every day. Innovation comes in all shapes and sizes. It lurks around every corner. It knows no age limit and has no half-life. It […]

“Well, I’ve never been to Spain But I kind of like the music…” – Three Dog Night Well, I’ve now been to Spain and I really do like the music. I just got back last Friday from two weeks there where I attended the Worldcom Public Relations Group’s Annual Group Meeting in Madrid, conducted client […]